— Carrie Preston played Elsbeth Tascioni, a brilliant lawyer whose eccentric behavior constantly threw off the heroes of those dramas. So naturally, when Preston gets her own series, simply titled— where David Hasselhoff’s lifeguard Mitch Buchanan moonlighted as a private detective, and in the second and final season began investigating paranormal mysteries — exists. And, for that matter, television has a long history of shoehorning disparate characters into policework for lack of a better idea.
What is she doing solving crimes in the first place? Well, nobody really understands it, but in theory she has been assigned to oversee a consent decree on the NYPD’s major case division.
Ayo Edebiri is admittedly one of the busiest actors in Hollywood right now, but if FX and Hulu really want to get extra mileage out of people’s love of, what if Sydney — a fundamentally curious person — decided to deal with her anxiety by spending her time outside the restaurant in the far less stressful field of murder investigation? sequel series where Kim Wexler solves murders in between her day job at a sprinkler company and her volunteer work at a legal aid office.